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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450736303321

Autore

Adamson H. D (Hugh Douglas)

Titolo

Language minority students in American schools [[electronic resource] ] : an education in English / / H.D. Adamson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, c2005

ISBN

1-135-62603-0

1-282-59635-7

9786612596353

1-4106-1251-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

Disciplina

428.3/4

Soggetti

Education, Bilingual - United States

Linguistic minorities - Education - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-243) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; 1 A Personal Introduction; 2 First and Second Language Acquisition; 3 Language Teaching; 4 Standard and Vernacular English; 5 Learning in a Second Language; 6 School and Family; 7 Bilingual Education; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses questions of language education in the United States, focusing on how to teach the 3.5 million students in American public schools who do not speak English as a native language. These students are at the center of a national debate about the right relationship among ESL, bilingual, and mainstream classes. Bilingual education has been banned by constitutional amendment in California and Arizona, and similar amendments are being considered in other states. Language Minority Students in American Schools: An Education in English places this debate and related issues of t



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910768464303321

Titolo

Inductive Logic Programming : 8th International Conference, ILP-98, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, July 22-24, 1998, Proceedings / / edited by David Page

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1998

ISBN

3-540-69059-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 1998.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 308 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; ; 1446

Disciplina

005.1/15

Soggetti

Software engineering

Artificial intelligence

Computer programming

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

Artificial Intelligence

Programming Techniques

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Attribute-value learning versus inductive logic programming: The missing links -- Advances in ILP theory and implementations -- Application of ILP to problems in chemistry and biology -- Relational reinforcement learning -- Learning first-order acyclic Horn programs from entailment -- Combining statistical and relational methods for learning in hypertext domains -- Application of inductive logic programming to discover rules governing the three-dimensional topology of protein structure -- Term comparisons in first-order similarity measures -- Stochastic propositionalization of non-determinate background knowledge -- A stochastic simple similarity -- Using prior probabilities and density estimation for relational classification -- Induction of Constraint Grammar-rules using Progol -- A hybrid approach to word segmentation -- Learning multilingual morphology with Clog -- Using ILP-systems for verification and validation of multi-agent systems -- Inducing shogi heuristics using inductive logic programming -- Repeat learning using predicate



invention -- Normal programs and multiple predicate learning -- Strongly typed inductive concept learning -- Function-free Horn clauses are hard to approximate -- DOGMA: A GA-based relational learner -- Generalization under implication by ?-subsumption -- Prolog, refinements and RLGG's -- Learning structurally indeterminate clauses -- Completing Inverse Entailment -- Distances and limits on Herbrand interpretations -- Relational distance-based clustering -- A framework for defining distances between first-order logic objects -- Detecting traffic problems with ILP -- A comparison of ILP and propositional systems on propositional traffic data.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP-98, held in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, in July 1998. The 27 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. All relevant aspects of inductive logic programming are covered ranging from theory to implementations and applications.